Anschitil de Turville

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹³¹⁸
"One of the greatest lords that accompanied Duke William upon his memorable invasion of England in 1066 was his half- brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. Among the Bishop's followers was a certain Anschitil, who may have been present at (the Battle of) Hastings-possibly one of the young men who the Bayeux tapestry. Anschitil was dead before 1086, when his son Roger is found holding extensive estates of the Bishop in the counties of Buckingham, Kent and Hertford. By far teh greater part of his possessions lay in Buckinghamshire where he held, besides several lesser lordships, Weston, Taplow, Chalfont, and Saunderton; in Kent, where he is called "son of Anschitil." he Held Hastingleigh and Eastling; in Hertford he held the manor of Putenham. These holdings, assessed at upwards of fifty hides, constituted a very large estate for a Doomsday under-tenant."

~"The Origins of the Putenhams," New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. 95. p. 122-124